2000 Lebanese general election

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All 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon
Turnout| 40.52% (3.04pp)
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Leader  | Rafic Hariri | Nabih Berri
Party  | Hariri Bloc | Amal Movement
Leader's seat  | Beirut | Zahrani
Last election  | 25 seats  | 8 seats
Seats won  | 26 | 10
Seat change  |  1  |  2

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| Third party  | Fourth party
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Leader  | Hassan Nasrallah | Walid Jumblatt
Party  | Hezbollah | PSP
Leader's seat  | None | Chouf
Last election  | 7 seats  | 5 seats
Seats won  | 10  | 6
Seat change  |  3  |  1

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| Prime Minister before election

Selim Hoss
Independent

| Elected Prime Minister

Rafic Hariri
Independent

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General elections were held in Lebanon between 27 August and 3 September 2000[1] to elect the 128 members of the Parliament of Lebanon. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 40.5%.[2]

## Results

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Party| Votes| %| Seats| +/–

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| Hezbollah| | 10| +3
| Amal Movement| | 10| +2
| Progressive Socialist Party| | 6| +1
| Syrian Social Nationalist Party| | 4| –1
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party| | 3| +1
| Kataeb Party| | 2| +2
| National Bloc| | 2| New
| Armenian Revolutionary Federation| | 2| 0
| Social Democrat Hunchakian Party| | 1| 0
| Armenian Democratic Liberal Party| | 1| +1
| Popular Nasserist Organization| | 1| 0
| Islamic Group| | 0| –1
| Toilers League| | 0| –1
| Promise Party| | 0| –1
| Arab Democratic Party| | 0| –1
| Al-Ahbash| | 0| –1
| Independents| | 86| –8
Total| | 128| 0
Total votes| 1,112,776| –|
Registered voters/turnout| 2,746,528| 40.52|
Source: Nohlen et al.

Of the 86 independent MPs, 48 were considered to be members of various blocs:[3]

* 26 in the Hariri bloc
* 6 in the Berri bloc (plus the ten Amal Movement MPs)
* 6 in the Jumblatt bloc (plus the six Progressive Socialist Party MPs)
* 5 in the Faranjiyyah bloc
* 3 in the Murr bloc
* 2 in the Hezbollah bloc (plus the ten Hezbollah MPs)
* 1 in the Kataeb bloc (plus the party's two MPs)

## References

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1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p183 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
2. ^ Nohlen et al., p184
3. ^ Nohlen et al., p190

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